Blessings promised Chap. viij. to the obedient. ther thou goeft to poffefs it, and hath caft flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he out many nations before thee, the Hittites, sware unto thy fathers to give thee. and the Girgafhites, and the Amorites, 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoand the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, ple: there shall not be male or female bar and the Hivites, and the Jebufites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee: thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew - mercy unto them: ren among you, or among your cattel. IS And the LORD will take away from thee all fickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou knoweft) upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 3. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them, thy daughter thou shalt not thee, thine eye shall have no pity upon give unto his fon, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy fon. 4 For they will turn away thy fon from following me, that they may ferve other gods: fo will the anger of the LORD be kindled againft you, and deftroy thee fuddenly. 5. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye fball deftroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chefen thee to be a special people unto himfelf, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not fet his love upon you, nor choofe you, because ye were mo in number than any people (for ye were the feweft of all people) 16 And thou shalt confume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver them: neither shalt thou ferve their gods, for that will be a snare unto thee. 17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are mo than I, how can I dispossess them? : 18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and untoall Egypt, 19 The great temptations which thine eyes faw, and the figns, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the ftretchedout arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover, the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be deftroyed. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God, and terrible. 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he bad fworn unto your fathers, hath the 22 And the LORD thy God will put Lond brought you out with a mighty out thofe nations before thee, by little and hand, and redeemed you out of the house little thou mayeft not confume them at of bond-men, from the hand of Pharaoh once, left the beafts of the field increase king of Egypt. upon thee. 9 Know therefore, that the LORD thy 23 But the LORD thy God shall deliver God, he God, the faithful God, which them unto thee, and shall destroy them keepeth covenant and mercy with them with a mighty deftruction, until they be that love him, and keep his command- destroyed. hents to a thousand generations; to And repayeth them that hate him, to their face, to destroy them: he will not be flack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to ftand before thee, until thou have deftroyed them. 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the com25 The graven images of their gods mandments, and the ftatutes, and the shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not dejadgments which I command thee this fire the filver or gold that is on them, nor day, to do them. take it unto thee, left thou be snared there 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if in: for it is an abomination to the LORD ye hearken to these judgments, and keep thy God. and do them, that the LORD thy God shall 26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomikeep unto thee the covenant and the mer- nation into thy house, left thou be a curty which he sware unto thy fathers. fed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly deteft it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it, 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will alfo bless the for it is a cursed thing. fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy Ind, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine cyl, the increafe of thy kine, and the CHAP. VIII. Ll the commandments which I c mand thee this day, thall ye ol A 1 Mofes exhorteth to obedience : Deuteronomy. He nehear Seth their to do, that ye may live and multiply, and manna, which thy fathers knew not, that go in and poffess the land which the LORD he might humble thee, and that he might fware unto your fathers. prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter 2 And thou shalt remember all the way end) which the LORD thy God led thee these 17 And thou say in thine heart. My forty years in the wilderness, to humble power and the might of my hand hath thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whither thou wouldeft keep his commandments, or no. gotten me this wealth. 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee 3 And he humbled thee, and fuffered power to get wealth, that he may eftablish thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna his covenant which he sware unto thy fa(which thou knewest not, neither did thers as it is this day. thy fathers know) that he might make 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forthee know that man doth not live by get the LORD thy God, and walk after bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. 4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years. 5 Thou shalt alfo confider in thine heart, that as a man chaftneth his fon, so the LORD thy God chaftneth thee. 6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, 8 A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of oyl-olive, and hony, 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without fcarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it, a land whose ftones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. other gods, and ferve them, and worship them, I teftifie against you this day, that ye shall furely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD de. ftroyeth before your face, so shall ye pe. rish because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God. CHAP. IX. H Ear, O Ifrael: thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to poffefs nations greater and mightier than thy self, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou haft heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee as a consuming fire: he shall deftroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and deftroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. 4 Speak not thou in thine heart after to When thou haft eaten and art full, that the LORD thy God hath caft them out then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God, from before thee, faying, For my righte for the good land which he hath given thee. II Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his ftatutes which I command thee this day : ousness the LORD hath brought me in to poffefs this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart doft thou go to 12 Left when thou hast eaten and art poffefs their land: but for the wickedness full, and haft built goodly houses, and of these nations the LORD thy God doth dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy filver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou haft is multiplied: 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God (which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; Is Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery ferpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint, 16 Who fed thee in the wildernets with drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to poffefs it, for thy righteousness, for thou art a stiff-necked people. 7 Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious againft the LORD. 8 Alfo in Horeb ye provoked the LORD Chap. x. to wrath, fo that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: 10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of ftone written with the finger of God, and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD fpake with you in the mount, out of the midft of fire, in the day of the affembly. II And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of itone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife, get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves : they are quickly turned afide out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image, 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, faying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a ftiff necked people. and prayeth for them. 22 And at Taberah, and at Maffah, and at Kibroth-hartaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. 23 Likewife when the LORD fent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up, and poffers the land which I have given you, then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkned to his voice. 24 You have been rebellous againft the LORD from the day that I knew you. 25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first, because the LORD had faid, he would deftroy you, 26 I pray therefore unto the LORD, and faid, O Lord Gon deftroy not thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou haft redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of E gypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember thy fervants Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob; look not unto the ftub bornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their fin: 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out, say, because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he 14 Let me alone that I may deftroy them, and blot out their name from under hated them, he hath brought them out to heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier, and greater than they, Is So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant Were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and behold, ye had finned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned afide quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took the two tables, and caft them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD as the firft, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your fins which ye finned, in doing wickedly in the fight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 19 (For I was afraid of the anger, and hot difpleasure wherewith the LORD was wroth againft you to deftroy you) But Er the LORD hearkned unto me at that time alfo. 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have deftroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron alfo the fame time. 21 And I took your fin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and ftamped it, and ground is very small, even until it was as small as duft: and I caft the duft thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. flay them in the wilderness. 29 Vet they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power, and by thy stretchedout arm. A CHAP. X. T that time the LORD faid unto me, Hew thee two tables of ftone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the firft tables which thou brakest, and thou shall put them in the ark. 3 And I made an ark of shittim-wood. and hewed two tables of tone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the afsfembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned my felf and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and there they be as the LORD Ccommanded me. 6 And the children of Ifrael took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mofera: there Aaron died, an there he was buried, and Eleazar h ministred in the priests office in his 2 An exhortation Deuteronomy. to ebedience. 7 From thence they jouneyed unto And know you this day : for I Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jot- not with your children which have not Speak bath, a land of rivers of waters. known, and which have not feen the 8 At that time the LORD, feparated chaftisement of the LORD your God, his the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the greatness, this mighty hand, and his stretchcovenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minifter unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. 9. Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him. ed out arm, 3. And his miracles, and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land, 4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots, how he made the water of the re And I'stayed in the mount according to the first time, forty days and forty Red fea to overflow them as they pursued nights, and the LORD hearkned unto me after you, and how the LORD hath deat that time also, and the LORD would stroyed them unto this day. not deftroy thee. s And what he did unto you in the 11 And the Lord faid unto me, Arife, wilderness, until ye came into this place, takethy journeybefore the people, that they 6 And what he did unto Dathan and may go in, and poffess the land which I Abiram the fons of Eliab, the fon of Reufware unto their fathers to give unto them. ben: how the earth opened her mouth, 12 And now Ifrael, what doth the and fwallowed them up, and their houLORD thy God require of thee, but to fear sholds, and their tents, and all the fubthe LORD thy God, to walk in all his stance that was in their poffeffion in the ways, and to love him, and to ferve the midft of all Ifrael. LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his ftatutes which I commanded thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens is the LorDs thy God, the earth also with all that therein is. 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be ftrong, and go in and poffefs the land whither ye go to poffefs ir: 9 And that ye may prolong your day's 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy in the land which the LORD fware unto fathers to love them, and he chose their your fathers to give unto them, and to feed after them, even you above all peo- their feed, a land that floweth with milk ple, as it is this day. 16 Circumcife therefore the foreskin of and hony. 16 For the land whither thou goeft your heart, and be no more ftiff-necked. in to poffers it, is not as the land of E.17 For the LORD your God is God of gypt, from whence ye came out, where gods, and Lord of mighty, and a terrble, which regardeth thou fowedst thy feed, and wateredit it not perfons, nor taketh reward. with thy foot as a lords, a great God, a 18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stran ger, in giving him food and raiment 19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were ftrangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; -him thalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. feen. 21 He is thy praife, and he is thy God that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten perfons, and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the ftars of heaven for multitude. CHAP. XI. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, charge, and statutes, and his judgments, and his Inmandments alway. garden of herbs: II But the land whither ye go to pofsess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year. 13 And it shall come to pals, if you shall hearken diligently unto my com mandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to ferve him with all your heart and with all your foul; 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due feafon, the firft rain and the latter rain, that thou mayeft gather in the cond and thy wine, and thine oyl. 15 I will send grafs in thy fields cattel, t that thou mayeft eat and for thy be full. 16 Take Blessings and curfings. Chap. xij. Idolatry to be destroyed. 16 Take heed to your selves, that your down, in the land of the Canaanites, which heart be not deceived, and ye turn afide, dwell in the champian over against Gilgal, - and serve other gods, and worship them: beside the plains of Moreh? 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kin3 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go dled againft you, and he shut up the hea- in to possess the land which the LORD ven that there be no rain, and that the your God giveth you, and ye shalt poffefs land yield nor her fruit, and left ye perish it, and dwell therein. quickly from off the good land which the 32 And ye shall observe to do all the sta LORD giveth you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart, and in your foul, and Lind them for a fign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. tutes and judgments which I set before you this day. T CHAP. XI. Here are the Aatutes, and judgments which ye shall obferve to do in the 19 And ye shall teach them your chil- land which the LORD God of thy fathers dren, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine houfe, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up. 420 And thou shalt write them upon the door-pofts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all thefe commandments which I command -you to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave anto him, 23 Then will the LORD drive out all hefe nations from before you, and ye shall poffefs greater nations, and mightier than your selves. giveth thee to poffess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye thall possess ferved their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. 3 And you shall overthrow their altare, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire, and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do fo unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye feek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 And thither ye shall bring your burntofferings, and your facrifices, and your tithes, and heave-offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your free-will-offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and 24 Every place whereon the foles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the of your flocks. nermoft fea, shall your coaft be. And there ye Thall eat, before the ye shall rejoyce in 25 There shall no man be able to ftand LORD your God, and Defore you: for the LORD your God shall aythe fear of you, and the dread of you apon all the land that ye shall tread upon, at he hath faid unto you. 16 Behold, I fet before you this day ableffing and a curse: A bleffing, if ye obey the comandments of the LORD your God which command you this day all that you put your hand unto, ye and your housholds, wherein the LORD the God hath bleffed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes. 9 For ye are not as yet come to the reft, and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you. 28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the omandiments of the LORD your God, it turn afide but of the way which I ommend you this day, to go after other ods which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass when the Then there shall be a place which ORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the LORD your God shall choose to cause the land whither thou goeft to to poffefs po it, his name to dwell there, thither shall ye that thou shalt put the blessing upon bring all that I command you, your burntrunt Gerizim. and the curfe upon offerings, and your facrifices, your tithes, unt Ebal.. and the heave-offering of your hand, and 30 Are they not on the other fide Jor- all your choice vows which ye vow unto In, by the way where the fun goeth the Loup To But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you reft from all your enemies roundabout, so that ye dwell in safety: |